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The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy

The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy Paperback - 2013 - 1st Edition

by Vincent, Bev (Author)

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NAL Trade, 2013. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 512 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.
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  • Title The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy
  • Author Vincent, Bev (Author)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NAL Trade, U.S.A.
  • Date 2013
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0451237994
  • ISBN 9780451237996 / 0451237994
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.03 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.62 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects King, Stephen, Roland (Fictitious character: King)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012036847
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

Summary

AN ALL-NEW COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY CONSTRUCTED WORLDS IN ALL OF FICTION

Stephen King’s bestselling multi-volume Dark Tower series is the author’s most inspired and imaginative creation. The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and his lifelong quest to reach the tower and save humanity across infinite parallel worlds is one that has consumed King throughout his career as characters and concepts crossed back and forth between the series and the rest of his fictional universe. The mythos continues to be chronicled and expanded in graphic novels overseen by King, interactive adventures on his website, a proposed film adaptation, and in a new Dark Tower novel.

The Dark Tower Companion is the ultimate compendium to King’s evolving magnum opus, presenting the mythology, history, and geography of this epic fantasy that has captivated generations of readers. Featuring interviews with Stephen King, Ron Howard, Dark Tower expert Robin Furth and others, Bev Vincent reveals The Dark Tower’s influential literary origins, examines its connections to the vast majority of King’s other novels, explores the expanded universe, catalogs the major characters, locations and concepts, and includes a travel guide to the story’s real-world locations, giving fans who have followed Roland’s journey—or those who are discovering it for the first time—a fascinating overview of the series and an inside look at the creative process of one of the world’s most popular authors.

From the publisher

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Media reviews

Praise for The Road to The Dark Tower

“Wonderful…opens doors to Roland’s world that not even I knew existed. If you like The Dark Tower books, you’ll like this one. Enthusiastically recommended.”—Stephen King

“Bev Vincent is a true King insider....His book is essential to every reader of Stephen King’s magnificent work.”—Peter Straub

“Vincent proves himself a master of the Dark Tower world.” —Publishers Weekly

“There’s much…literature on Stephen King’s work, but most of it can be skipped. Not so with Vincent’s The Road to the Dark Tower, the first full-length study of King’s thirty-year opus, a book-by-book summary with explanations and commentary.” —Charles N. Brown, Locus

About the author

Bev Vincent has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001, writing the News from the Dead Zone column that appears in every issue. He is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated com­panion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower Companion, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion.

His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands, and The Blue Religion. He is a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews. Vincent lives in Texas with his wife.